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Confronting your “absolute stupidity” is a sign you’re on course to learning something new and wonderful.

Research suggests curiosity triggers parts of the brain associated with anticipation, making answers more rewarding once discovered.

If our Milky Way were located in the Virgo cluster instead of the Local Group, chances are we’d already be a “red and dead” galaxy.

Unconsidered productivity might leave you moving efficiently in the entirely wrong direction.

A brief guide to habits that separate deep understanding from superficial knowledge — and how to cultivate them.

Photons come in every wavelength you can imagine. But one particular quantum transition makes light at precisely 21 cm, and it’s magical.

Yushiro Kato — the 32-year-old co-founder and CEO of manufacturing platform CADDi — offers his most valuable leadership learnings.

Archaeologist Bernard Frischer spent decades uploading the ruins of the Eternal City to the cloud. Here’s what it looks like.

“The problem with conspiracy theories is they’re not just telling you a story, they’re telling you a really good story. There’s a hidden cabal behind everything that’s happening, there’s a secret pattern that you just have to be smart enough to detect.”

AI has become a black box in more ways than one.

The “Doctor Strange” director says mystery shifts your worldview — “not in a metaphorical sense, but in a deeply experiential one.”

Scalars, vectors, and tensors come up all the time in physics. They’re more than mathematical structures. They help describe the Universe.

“People will claim that something is rigorous because it’s by an authority figure or it’s written in a book. But anyone can write a book.”

“When you feel the isolation setting in at times, you have to reframe your mindset.”

Although a great many unidentified sights have been seen in the skies, none have conclusively demonstrated the presence of aliens. So far.

The Osbournes was MTV’s biggest show – and it almost cost Jack Osbourne his life. Here’s how his family’s reality TV fame stole his childhood, and how he’s been able to heal since.

If it weren’t for the intricate rules of quantum physics, we wouldn’t have formed neutral atoms “only” ~380,000 years after the Big Bang.

The U.S. ranked 59th worldwide.

With ~400 billion stars in the Milky Way and 6-20 trillion galaxies overall, that makes for a lot of stars. But not as many as you’d think.

Using shaped ultrasound, researchers can 3D print objects in one shot.

Cecilie Fjellhøy, from the Netflix documentary The Tinder Swindler, shares her experience.

Cognitive neuroscientist and AI researcher Christopher Summerfield explores the differences, and similarities, of how AI and humans make meaning of the world.

Humans are among the most altruistic species that we’ve studied, due to our alloparental instincts – a trait we evolved into that allows us to care for offspring who are […]

Leadership evasion might seem like a plan for workplace freedom but it isn’t a good thing — it’s a denial of opportunity.

Calculating training ROI is rarely straightforward, but this article offers a few best practices for L&D professionals.

The milestone puts us one step closer to ending the organ shortage.

Surprisingly, multimodal large language models struggle to read time on analog clocks.

It would get rid of our hazardous, radioactive, and pollutive waste for good, but physics tells us it’s a losing strategy for elimination.

Is the Universe finite or infinite? Does it go on forever or loop back on itself? Here’s what would happen if you traveled forever.